Cosmopolitan Club: GNL plays your favourite music. October 5.
Musica Viva presents Australian pianist Tony Lee: Tiromoana, 41 Winifred St, Okitu, October 6 (4pm). Door sales, adult $20, students $10.
ExNE — East by North East: A screening of the live 2017 showcase, Smash Palace, October 6 (6pm).
NZTrio presents Exotica: Music from Spain, Argentina, Brazil and beyond. War Memorial Theatre, October 11 (7pm). Tickets from TicketDirect or Stephen Jones Photography.
NZ Male Choir: Supported by Gisborne Choral Society, Saturday October 13, St Andrew’s Church (7.30pm). Door sales.
Musica Viva: presents Australian violinist Emily Sun and British pianist Gamal Khamis. Tiromoana, 41 Winifred St, Okitu. October 15 (7.30pm). Door sales, adult $20, students $10.
Songs for Nobodies: One-woman show by Joanna-Murray Smith, presented by Ali-Cat Productions Ltd. War Memorial Theatre, October 17 (7.30pm).
Gisborne Comedy Gala: Wrights Vineyard Winery, October 20 (2pm). Free entry.
TheatrePeter Pan: War Memorial Theatre, Saturday at 6pm and Sunday at 2pm. Performed by the Gisborne Homeschool Group. A school performance will be held on Monday at 10am. Tickets at the door, $8. Or email gisbornehomeschooldrama@gmail.com for presales.
Collective Agreement by Whiti Hereaka: Gisborne Girls’ High School year 13 drama class, Girls’ High drama theatre, Monday and Tuesday (7pm). Tickets from Room 33 or contact the school office. Students $8, adults $10.
Operatunity’s Tennessee Waltz: War Memorial Theatre, September 26 (11am).
Dr Seuss’s The Cat In The Hat: War Memorial Theatre, Saturday October 27 (10am and 12.30pm).
Visual ArtsExhibition
Tairawhiti Museum: A Quilt Does Not Have To Stand Alone — a unique approach to quilting. Pouwhare: A Pillar of Strength.Tribute exhibition to Te Kooti Rikirangi Te Turuki (10am-4pm), Monday-Saturday.
10 Stout St.
Te Kurahuna, 75a Peel Street: Mahi A Atua exhibition of work by Mark Kopua, Nick Tupara, Poutu Puketapu, Huia Edmonds, Gavin Smith and others.
Verve Cafe: Wahine Atua, works by Deborah Hope.
Zest: Textiles by More Than Fabric.
Muirs Bookshop Cafe: Artworks based on Gisborne and East Coast scenes by Troy Conole.
At the moviesDome cinema
The Miseducation of Cameron Post: Cameron (Chloe Grace Moretz) is sent to a gay conversion therapy centre after being caught with another girl in the back seat of a car on prom night.
Mega Time Squad: New Zealand-made time-travel action comedy set in Thames. Written and directed by Tim van Dammen, and starring Anton Tennet, Jonny Brugh and Milo Cawthorne. Small-town criminal John dreams of getting enough money to move to Paeroa with his boss’s sister. Sent by his boss to rob the local triad, John comes across an ancient Chinese bracelet with time-travelling powers, but he discovers that altering timelines brings complications.
Zama: An administrative official in a remote Spanish colony in 18th century South America longs for a better assignment but is frustrated over a long period.
Odeon multiplex
Ladies in Black: Adapted from Madeleine St John’s 1993 novel. In 1959 Sydney, Lisa Miles (Angourie Rice) is convinced her job in a department store is a stepping stone to a career as a poet or actress. Thinking she will learn all the culture she needs from her co-workers in the women’s clothing department, she finds instead she gets the worst jobs and can’t seem to do anything right. However, the Slovenian-born head of the modern-gowns section, Magda (Julia Ormond), takes her under her wing and things look up. Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy, Mao’s Last Dancer) directed.
Johnny English Strikes Again: Rowan Atkinson returns as the accident-prone British superspy, brought out of retirement by a cyberattack that exposes all active undercover British agents. Now he must learn about computers to find the hacker.
Smallfoot: Animated musical comedy about a group of yeti who come across a human, each species having thought the other was just a myth. Stars the voice talents of Channing Tatum, James Corden, LeBron James and Danny DeVito.
The Predator: A boy accidentally triggers the return to Earth of the most lethal hunters in the universe. Only a ragtag bunch of ex-soldiers and an evolutionary biologist stand in their way. But the predators have genetically upgraded themselves.
A Simple Favour: A small-town blogger (Anna Kendrick) investigates the disappearance of her friend (Blake Lively). Betrayals, surprises and the discovery of a dead body follow.
Christopher Robin: The boy who had adventures with Winnie-the-Pooh has grown up and lost his way. Now Pooh and co enter the everyday world to help Christopher rediscover his loving, playful self. Stars Ewan McGregor and the voices of Peter Capaldi, Jim Cummings and Toby Jones.
The Nun: Supernatural horror film. In 1952 Romania, a Catholic priest and a novice are sent to investigate the mysterious suicide of a nun at the Carta Monastery.
Crazy Rich Asians: Romantic comedy-drama touted as the first modern film by a major Hollywood studio to feature a majority Asian cast since The Joy Luck Club in 1993.
The Meg: Scientists encounter a 23-metre megalodon shark while on a rescue mission at the bottom of the Pacific.
Book Club: Four 60-plus women discuss the Fifty Shades series at their book club. Stars Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen, Jane Fonda and Candice Bergen.
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